B.S. Johnson Quotes

In matters of business, no woman stops at integrity.

The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.

A country gentleman should bring his lady to visit London as soon as he can, that they may have agreeable topicks for conversation when they are by themselves.

Whoever shall review his life, will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment.

Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.

Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.

The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning.

Suspicion is very often a useless pain.

Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise.

The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.

Probably no one will ever know whether it is better to wear a nightcap or not.

Spite and ill-nature are among the most expensive luxuries in life.

That what cannot be repaired is not to be regretted.

Leave to Heaven the measure and the choice.

Let us be quick to repent of injuries while repentance may not be a barren anguish.

The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate.

He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised.

Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.

Words are daughters of earth but ideas are sons of heaven.

What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.

The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise.

None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.

Still we love The evil we do, until we suffer it.

When we see our enemies and friends gliding away before us, let us not forget that we are subject to the general law of mortality, and shall soon be where our doom will be fixed forever.

The uncertainty of death is, in effect, the great support of the whole system of life.

The time will come to every human being when it must be known how well he can bear to die.

It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad.

Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest.

Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted.

Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers.

Riches are of no value in themselves; their use is discovered only in that which they procure.

Men who could willingly resign the luxuries and sensual pleasures of a large fortune cannot consent to live without the grandeur and the homage.

Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it.

The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding.

It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.

No man reads a book of science from pure inclination. The books that we do read with pleasure are light compositions, which contain a quick succession of events.

To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are always pardoned.

It is the care of a very great part of mankind to conceal their indigence from the rest. They support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for to-morrow.

The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure.

It's an honor to paint cats.

You need aspiration if you want to really achieve greatness in this world.

You and your heart shouldn't feel so far apart

Houston is undoubtedly my showcase city. I saved all my best buildings for Houston.

I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.

No doubt it is true that science cannot study God, but it hardly follows that God had to keep a safe distance from everything that scientists want to study.

So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching.

Found my foundation it was underneath me all along. On this path I'm on I never walk alone

This [the intelligent design movement] isn't really, and never has been, a debate about science, it's about religion and philosophy.

Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality.